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"7T Pet Fun For Good Reason II CD i -i r. With a little help from his friends, 8-year-old Larry Scherer raised money for the March of Dimes yesterday by having a pet show at 6150 Gateway. Instead of using the proceeds to replace his recently stolen bicycle, Larry gave the money to those with limited mobility. He suffers from a muscular birth defect that allows him to walk but which rules out running. The NEWS Photos, Gary Moore, IN .1 Doug Peck seems "puppy proud." April Cloe" (left) and Aaron and Phoebe Ungersma with Heidi.

Evelyn Sutor and her dog Strudel. THE INDIANAPOLIS NEWS PAIR A DICE Fair tonight, low 59; sunny, warm tomorrow, high 83. Page 39. HOME EDITION "Where ih Spirit of ihe Lord Is, There Is Liberty." II Cor. 3-17 SATURDAY EVENING, JUNE 30, 1 973 104th YEAR toe Ptr Week Cmitr Deluered Federal Building Ehrlichman To Trip Up Dean? Small Already Too the remodeling of the ground floor space vacated nearly two years ago by the postoffice.

The contract for remodeling calls for the firm to construct offices and rest room facilities on the ground floor and build a pistol target range in the sub-basement in the Northeast corner of the building. The Federal clerk's office and probation office are expected to move downstairs into this space, along with Army recruiting stations and the U.S. Civil Service Commission. The other occupants of the building when the remodeling is completed next April and occupied in May are expected to be the district courts, both U. S.

senators, the Department of Agriculture, Labor and Treasury (probably the Secret Service and Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Bureau), Army Corps of Engineers, GSA, the Equal Employ- ment Commission and an office for the Executive Office of the President. Next summer the agencies will begin shuffling from one building to another. For the citizen, it will be the" same situation. The. offices will be where you find them, but not in a centralized location.

By RANDY CABLE The new $20 million Federal Building under construction is too small to handle all the government needs now, The News has learned. When the six-story structure was first planned 10 years ago, it was to be the home of nearly all of the Federal agencies in Indianapolis. Plans were to relocate all Federal offices into the structure being built at Pennsylvania and Michigan or in the present Federal Building three blocks away. This was to do away with the scattered location of offices about Indianapolis in leased spaces. But according to a General Services Administration spokesman in Washington, that is not now possible.

The new building will not have enough room and "most leased space will have to continue to be leased," the spokesman said. The Federal government now is leasing space at 27 locations in Indianapolis at an annual cost of $974,269 for the 215,481 square feet besides use of the government-owned Federal Building and the rundown Century Building, 36 S. Pennsylvania. In early 1964 when the drive for a new building got under way, the government was leasing property at 13 Margie Joseph locations at an annual cost of $379,000. Since that time the size of the agencies has grown, but little change has made in the scheduling of space to meet these needs.

When the new building was first proposed, officials talked about a building which would have 462,000 square feet. According to GSA, the building under construction will have 450,000 square feet, including hallways, rest rooms and elevator Plans call for only four agencies to occupy the new building. The latest contingency plans, the Washington spokesman said, are for offices of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare, particularly the Social Security Administration, FBI, -Veterans Administration and the Department of the Treasury, meaning the Internal Revenue Service, to occupy the building. The new building, which is scheduled to be finished by July, 1974, will have Indiana limestone facing with a five-floor tier of windowed offices raised 24-feet above the street stanc'ing atop a columned arcade encircling the building. A plaza will be located to the wost of the building and a two-level partly screened parking lot for 450 cars will be on the east side.

"We probably will retain most of the leased, snace," the spokesman said. "It looks like we're building it (new building) to replace the Century Building." Lowest Bidder Some of the offices in the Century Building, which has approximately 150,000 square feet of office space, will find space in the old Fedsral Building due to the departure of IRS (representing 40,071 square feet) and an $836,000 renovation project of the ground floor of that building. Indianapolis contractor Leslie Colvin was the lowest of seven bidders for By LAWRENCE KNUTSON WASHINGTON (AP)-Former White House aid John D. Ehrlichman says he has evidence to "trip up" the sworn testimony of John Dean III. Ehrlichman said he believes Dean is trying to implicate President Nixon to save himself from criminal "The only person who would have been in a position to keep abreast of an investigation and to have taken steps to protect the three or four people, including himself, who were involved in the inception of this was.

Dean," Ehrlichman said. The former presidential counsel "was uniquely at the pivot point of the coverup," said 1 i a in the strongest conierattack to date against Dean. '1 Ehrlichman's statements came yesterday as Dean concluded five days of exhaustive testimony and Stood firm on his charge that President Nixon knew the outlines of the coverup as-early as last Sept. 15. Logs Will Trip Dean' Dean said Ehrlichman and former White House chief of staff H.

R. Halde-man shared that knowledge with the President. Ehrlichman said in a television interview he first became aware a coverup was in progress last March after he had begun an investigation at the request of the President. "I have the feeling that having failed to receive immunity from prosecution by offering testimony about Haldeman and me, he switched to this current effort to strike at the President for the same purpose," Ehrlichman told the Christian Science "Dean will be tripped up by the logs I kept of all meetings," the Monitor quoted Ehrlichman as saying. He said those records literally months went byduring the time Dean was talking about that I had no contact with him at all.

To hear his testimony, he was in and out of my office every 10 minutes." In the television interview Ehrlichman acknowledged he had responsibility for the White House team investigating leaks of national security information. But he claimed he had no advanee knowledge that the team planned the 1971 burglary of the office Watergate At A Glance WASHINGTON (AP) Here, in brief, are developments in the Watergate affair. EHRLICHMAN Former White House aid John Ehrlichman said he didn't know of the Watergate coverup until he uncovered it himself. He said he has the records to "trip up" the tesimony of former White House counsel John W. Dean III.

DEAN Completing five days of testimony before the Senate Watergate Committee yesterday, Dean repeated his story that President Nixon and his top aids knew about the coverup. "The truth is my ally," Dean said. ATTORNEYS The three original Watergate prosecutors resigned from the case after conferring with special prosecutor Archibald Cox. WEICKER Sen. Lowell P.

Weick-er ordered former White House aid Charles W-; Colson from the senator's office after Colson came to say he had not tried to influence the committee. Weicker had made the charge against Colson Thursday. 'f MITCHELL The attorney for the next witness in the hearings, former Atty. Gen. John N.

Mitchell, said his client has no information implicating the President in the coverup. of the psychiatrist of Pentagon papers figure Daniel Ellsberg. The responsibility for the Watergate coverup belongs to Dean, Ehrlichman said. "The White House had no interest, as such, in covering up. It had no exposure.

"I don't claim to have been very prescient in this whole thing," Ehrlichman said. "I was a late bloomer, I must confess. And it was not until very late in this inquiry that I made at the President's request, that I finally put the last few pieces in the puzzle and began to see where Dean fit." Ehrlichman appeared on a national television program in an interview taped Thursday. Dean admitted to Senate question-Continued on Page 6 IN THE NEWS Pages Smile For A While Sunny and warmer weather is forecast for tomorrow while cooler weather with possible showers is expected to follow. Tonight's low is expected to be 59 with a high tomorrow of 83, the National Weather Service said.

Cooler weather and showers are expected Monday through Wednesday. There will be two possible sightings of Skylab tonight. The first will be at 9:26, moving in the northern sky from west to east for 4 minutes, 13 seconds and the second will be at 11:03, moving in the same pattern for 5 minutes, 2 seconds. Amusements 10-11 Obituaries 23 Books 40 Picture Page 20 Business 22 Sports 1 Church 4-6 TV-Radio 15-16 Comics 14 Want Ads Editorials 12 Women The NEWS Phone Numbers Main Office 633-1240 Want Ads 633-1212 Circulation 633-9211 The News Zip Code 46206 Crime Alert (Emergency) 633-2811 Si ILmwhbkb School Board Directed To Begin Negotiations Gerry Mulligan RED MUD AT POCONO And You Thought Our 500 Was Wet Judge Frank Symmes Jr. Related Story, Page 17 under a duty to negotiate in good faith with the plaintiff, as exclusive representation of the teachers employed by the defendant, but not on and after Jan.

1, 1974, for the 1973-74 school year relating to the terms and conditions of employment of teachers." 3 That Public Law 217, the collective bargaining bill for teachers, "has not superseded, rescinded or terminated the defendant's duty, arising out of the consent agreement, to negotiate in good faith with the plaintiff, both before and after July 1, 1973, for an agreement on terms and conditions of employment for the 1973-74 school year." Symmes agreed with the IEA that the new collective bargaining bill doesn't go into effect until Jan. 1. The board has maintained that it becomes effective tomorrow and that a majority representation election should be held before negotiations can begin. It was the board's feeling that if bargaining did begin without a new election, and the July 1 date was determined as the effective date, the board would be open to an unfair labor suit by any teacher or organization on the grounds P.L. 217 had not been followed; Meyer said yesterday's action leaves the bfiard "sufficiently protected." "Symmes set as a deadline to try to reach an agreement the opening of school, Sept.

4. The present teacher contract expires Aug. 6. Dean IEA executive director, said the IEA negotiations committee is prepared to begin bargaining, which could start the week after ncUj By PHILIP ALLEN Superior Court Judge Frank Symmes has ordered the Indianapolis School Board "to begin the negotiations process immediately" with the Indianapolis Education Association for a 1973-74 city public teacher contract. Symmes, in a five-page decision to grant a preliminary injunction to begin bargaining, noted that unless negotiations begin immediately, "the orderly system of education in the city of Indianapolis will be Jeopardized." He also said regarding further delay in obtaining a new contract for the city's 4,000 city teachers, "irreparable injury, for which there is no adequate remedy at law, will result to plaintiff (IEA for teachers) for the reason that the teachers employed by the defendant will not know the terms and conditions of their employment by the defendant (board) as they have in each of the four preceding years." School Board president Carl Meyer said he does not expect the board to challenge yesterday's court order, although he plans to call the six other board members together next week to act officially on the decision.

'We W7 Comply' The fact that the preliminary injunction calls for a trial may be unfortunate, Meyer added, since the court will be on vacation next month "and by the time we have a trial October at the earliest the Issue is going to be over. ik iMdll TH Nwl MOUNT POCONO, Pa. For those who attended the Indianapolis Motor Speedway's 500-Mile Race this year, and remembered the mounds of trash and the horrendous smell that developed after three days of rain and people, rest assured. Similar fates can be found elsewhere. Pocono International Raceway, which will be host for its own 500-mile race tomorrow (noon, WIBC), knows what rain is all about.

Last year, Fourth of July holiday rains forced a postponement of the 200-lap race for almost a month. Portions of Eastern Pennsylvania were declared emergency areas because of high water. This year whs not to be outdone. Rains again have hit Pocono, although with not the sumo force as last year. But Indianapolis' mess after three days doesn't compnre Willi Pocono's the day before, Red mud, more than ankle deep in places, may not smell like leftover garbage, but it creates as many headaches.

At least at Indianapolis an occasional strand of grass popped up, giving "My personal opinion is that we will comply with the order," he said. Ironically, Symmes' decision came two days after the board indicated in executive session that it will give Dr. Jerry Lee Hart of the Educational Service Bureau of Washington a year's contract as sole board negotiator. While details of the new contract were not available, Hart refused a $300-per-day contract as an "employe relations consultant" because it wasn't open ended. Meyer stressed, however, that the new contract being drawn up by the board's attorneys will have a financial ceiling, probably in the $20,000 range, as before.

In his decision, Symmes noted: 1 That the 1969 "consent election agreement" won in a schoolwide election by the IEA in determining a bargaining agent with the board "has not been superseded, terminated, rescinded or in any manner rendered ineffective or unenforceable by subse-qilent agreements between the parties." 2f That under the existing consent signs of hope. Pocono has no grass. Its infield area is a sea of slime. Thursday night rains again struck with monsoon proportions one nearby city recorded 5 inches in less than a half hour, another was seeking to be declared an emergency disaster area. For good measure, 2 more inches fell on Pocono yesterday.

Water stood knee-high in some garages. The infield tunnels were flooded. Roads leading to the track (and they're little ones at best) were covered with water and debris. There are other apparent differences between Pocono and Indianapolis, too. Indianapolis' size and stature hits a visitor immediately.

All those massive stands just mark greatness. Pocono's one grandstand, set In a stark surrounding of red clay (and mud), looks almost lonely. Pocono's plus, however, is an outstanding one. Entering the speedway area among the Appalachian Moun-. tains and tail trees sure beats West 16th Street! Benny Goodman Jazz Pizazz NEW YORK The Newport Jazz Festival opened yesterday, the start of 10 days of 50 concerts at 15 locations.

Soul jazz singer Margie Joseph and sax player Ccrry Mulligan held center stage in Central Park in the afternoon and Benny Goodman's original quartet performed at Carnegie Hall last night. AP: TODAY'S DEFINITION CHATTtHBOX A woman who It always ihootlng oft htr mouth end who ntftr runt out of ammunition. i agreement, "the defendant remains 4 5.

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